Porsuk
Porsuk is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Çarşamba, Samsun Province, Turkey. Its population is 781.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 781 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Çarşamba, Samsun, northern Turkey
- Also known as: “Porsuk Köyü” and “Porsuk, Çarşamba”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Çakmak Dam.
Çakmak Dam
Dam
Çakmak Dam is a dam in Samsun Province, Turkey. Its reservoir has been found to house Capoeta tinca, a species of scraper, as well as 136 recorded taxa of phytoplankton, with members of the phylum Chlorophyta dominant in population density, and Bacillariophyta dominant in terms of species richness.
Porsuk
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Çarşamba İlçesi, Samsun Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
41.1248° or 41° 7′ 29″ northLongitude
36.64759° or 36° 38′ 51″ eastPopulation
781Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)Open location code
8GHR4JFX+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1496192442OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
740535Wikidata ID
Q7230428
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Porsuk” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Փորսուղ”
- Chechen: “Норсук”
- Dutch: “Porsuk”
- German: “Porsuk”
- Malay: “Porsuk, Çarşamba”
- Malay: “Porsuk”
- Tatar: “Порсук”
- Turkish: “Porsuk, Çarşamba”
- Turkish: “Porsuk”
- Uzbek: “Porsuk”
- Vietnamese: “Porsuk, Çarşamba”
- Vietnamese: “Porsuk”
- “Porsuk”
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